Pune city police have busted a racket and arrested a technical expert for rigging the GMAT entrance exam for international MBA courses.
Police have identified the accused as Abhay Mishra, a resident of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. An MBA student from Pune had lodged an FIR in the cyber police station in this matter.
Police said that the accused used to work through the Instagram account “GMAT_GRE_SHORTCUT”. According to a police statement, the complainant had come to know that the accused had helped the students to score good marks in the GMAT entrance exam.
On contacting the accused, the complainant was told that he had to pay Rs 2.5 lakh for 700 marks out of 800, Rs 2.7 lakh for 710 marks, Rs 3 lakh for 720, Rs 3.5 lakh for 730, Rs 3.7 lakh for 740. , and Rs.4 lakh for more than Rs.750.
Thereafter the complainant and the accused agreed to a settlement. Police said that the accused appeared for the GMAT exam by remotely accessing his system using applications like AnyDesk, DWService and WeTransfer on behalf of the complainant.
When the complainant scored 770 out of 800 in the GMAT test, the accused started calling him repeatedly and demanding Rs 4 lakh. However, the former did not want to pay and realized that it was a racket. Based on his complaint, the police booked the accused under sections 419 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code and various sections of the Information Technology Act.
The police did a technical analysis of the Instagram account, bank account, mobile number and AnyDesk user ID used by the accused. Based on the leads, the police team went to Jamshedpur and arrested Mishra and brought him to Pune. Police also recovered a laptop, a cell phone, four pen drives, four debit cards and other material from his possession. A Pune court has sent Mishra to police custody till October 22 for further investigation.
When contacted, Senior Inspector DS Heck said, “Abhay Mishra is a BTech graduate. He and his associates were running a racket of rigging the GMAT entrance exam. Search is on for other accused. One of them runs a private coaching class for GMAT admissions. Another appeared for the GMAT entrance test by gaining online remote access to the students’ computer at their location. “
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